D&D 4E Should WotC Release 4E Now?

[Ghaerdon Fain]

It's in the wild. Chapters.ca, Buy.com and obviously some others have released it early, dispite their efforts it's a bust and now it's in easy torrent form.

Should WotC just inform Amazon, FLGS etc to just let it slip on the shelves?

 

[Vempyre]

No, that would hurt teh small hobby shops immensely, many havn'nt received their shipment yet.

It should instead hit the lawbrakers with an heavy fine or/and stop sending them the book sfor a while as a breach of contract thingy.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I think they'll probably stick with the release date, since they're also trying to promote Game Day on June 7th.

 

[pogminky]

I don't know how WotC can win this. If they decide, ok we'll release it early it'd be sending a bad message to everyone, setting a nasty precidant and probably harming FLGS sales - not to mention messing up their big launch.

If they don't (I reckon they won't) then they'll lose money and face.

Either way stupidity and piracy have done damage.

 

[Ghaerdon Fain]

I just "looked" at two sites and at least 500 people have the books in a way WotC never wished, and they don't have the RIAA backing them. I understand about saving face but now isn't it about economics and stopping the bleed?

WotC has failed it's second saving throw while unconscious... how will the third roll go?

For the poor FLGS if I had my shipment in, I might just quietly put it on the shelf and ethics be damned.

 

[Mr Jack]

I just "looked" at two sites and at least 500 people have the books in a way WotC never wished...

I trust you've done the decent thing and contacted WotC with the details of these sites?

 

[Cadfan]

A fair number of the people who claim to have the books are really using the pirated version. You can tell because they leak information by copy and paste, with the original obscure unicode symbols. If you see question marks in random places in people's leaked excerpts, they probably cut and pasted from a document.

 

[ShadowyFigure]

My question is this, Are all who are downloading the torrent or PDFS (from rs or mf) canceling preorders and reserves, Im deffinatly not. I'm buy the three still (£40 total) and two phbs (both at £20) and if a scan hadnt turned up would have scanned them myself for my own use on a flash stick so they couldnt be p2pered. As I have always with my D&D books, scans are useful for things such as print out for the table, tables and saving space as the books are big./

If WOTC do or dont launch early, good for them either way however they should stick bum f**k buy.com

 

[malraux]

I think they'll probably stick with the release date, since they're also trying to promote Game Day on June 7th.

Not only that, but ad buys, website promos, distribution plans, etc. I'm sure that WotC had a "once the books leak" plan for this, but I can't imagine that would involve moving the release date.

 

[Ginnel]

I trust you've done the decent thing and contacted WotC with the details of these sites?

After reading this thread I've just done a quick google and found a link if WotC aren't doing the same I'd be a tad suprised.

My opinion is that I do not condone piracy, and will be waiting (although anxiously) until my local gaming shop gets their stock in